We are tired of being addressed with derogatory, outdated and stigmatizing terms; we are persons like everyone else; we are not disabled people – we are persons with disabilities and/or difficulties. We have sent a letter to authorities with jurisdiction, for an urgent amendment of the law, in which, more than 20 years since Croatia […]

Having finished with the activities at the DIP, we ended the day with the 4th educational lecture held by the Center for Inclusive Work Activities. The topic of today’s lecture was “Strategies and the national plan for equalizing opportunities for persons with disabilities,” as part of the “Active for Inclusion” project. The project is financially […]

What does it mean to be a self-advocate? Have you ever been in a situation where the people around you did not allow you to speak for yourself? Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that others were making decisions on your behalf because “you just don’t understand it”? In order for […]

  Last week was important for us and our activities, because the Parliament accepted the proposal of the Law on Social Welfare, and with that some of the legal institutes and provisions were partially regulated and harmonized with the practice in the neighboring countries. We still haven’t harmonized the entire legal framework for equalizing opportunities […]

  These days we received some donations, but the donors remain unknown, because the reference is incomplete. We are very surprised and grateful because we need every support we can get – as a stepping stone to the realization of our first development goal: the adaptation of sanitary facilities. This has to be done in […]

Volunteer Action No. 2 – painting of our new HOME Today, on August 1st, 2020, at 37 degrees, we continued painting our new home at the Wenzelova 2 street. Besides the master painters, Dževad and Amir from Obrt Dževad Osojkić, we were helped by one dad and aunt volunteer, from the Green Kastav fair, and […]